Published on : Thursday, January 9, 2014
As the CIFF Office show ends, the memories and impressions will take some time to arrange into a balanced set of perspectives. The exhibition site with its catchy name ¬ China Import and Export Fair Complex ¬ is vast. So large that, even though 37 exhibition halls were used for the Office show plus the concurrently held Woodworking Machinery, Furniture Materials and Interzum shows, that was less than half the total available.
Although fleets of dozens of eight-seater, electrically powered, shuttle buses ferried visitors all day long from one section to another, the distances walked were still invariably immense. The Office Furniture show in 210,000sq m (2.3m sq ft) lasted for four, long, days, but unless a visitor merely dashed through the halls without stopping, it wasn’t possible to see all the 900+ exhibitors in the time available. If one wandered out of the aisles to stop to talk to exhibitors or view some interesting looking products – which of course is what visitors are meant to do ¬ you found the show had closed and you had not managed to visit all the halls.
Despite the relatively short duration of the exhibition, considerable effort and cost had been invested in many of the stands – particularly those of the larger companies- some of which were at least 1,000 sq m (11,000sq ft) in size. There were some really imaginative, well executed presentations.
Tags: China Import and Export Fair Complex, CIFF Office, Furniture Materials and Interzum shows, The Office Furniture show, Woodworking Machinery
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